{"id":5594,"date":"2022-12-12T14:42:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2022-12-12T14:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T19:42:56","slug":"2023-it-forecast-for-business-leaders-4-tech-predictions-for-the-upcoming-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stratospherenetworks.com\/blog\/2023-it-forecast-for-business-leaders-4-tech-predictions-for-the-upcoming-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 IT forecast for business leaders: 4 tech predictions for the upcoming year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AAccurately prophesizing the technology landscape of the future is a challenging task. For example, a scene in the 1989 movie \u201cBack to the Future II\u201d famously depicted the existence of hoverboards in 2015 \u2013 an encouraging vision that sadly failed to become a reality. \u201cWe were promised hoverboards,\u201d lamented the opening sentence of a New York Times article titled \u201cWhy a \u2018Back to the Future\u2019 Hoverboard Never Took Off<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, despite an unavoidable margin of error, tech industry experts can make educated guesses about how the months and years ahead of us will unfold. t\u2019s safe to say that technology will continue to significantly influence the trajectory of our personal and professional lives for the foreseeable future. In terms of specific forecasts for the tech world, here are some predictions experts have made concerning the fate of IT in 2023.<\/p>\n

1. Businesses will spend more on IT despite an expected economic slowdown.<\/h2>\n

Eighty-three percent of IT buyers in Europe and North America are worried about a recession in the new year, according to The 2023 State of IT report<\/a> from Spiceworks Ziff Davis (SWZD). However, 51 percent still say their organizations will increase IT budgets, with a mere 6 percent expecting to lower tech spending. Factors driving higher expenditures include the following:<\/p>\n